Model comparison

Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B

Mistral Medium 3.5 and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.2 vs 40.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 16 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B

NVIDIA

40.6

Rank #147 Confirmed

Summary

They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher in 6 categories and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in reasoning, where Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads 27.1 to 17.3.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium 3.5.

Side by side

Mistral Medium 3.5 and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B specifications
	Mistral Medium 3.5	Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
Provider	Mistral AI	NVIDIA
Noometry Index	40.2	40.6
Released	—	2025-12-15
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	262K	262K
Max output	210K	262K
Input $ / M tokens	$1.50	$0.05
Output $ / M tokens	$7.50	$0.20
Results tracked	22	18

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Category by category

Coding Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 40.5 (#138)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Coding	1461	1378
LMArena WebDev	1264	—

Reasoning Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 27.1 (#124)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts	1436	1348
Kagi LLM Benchmark	41.4%	—
NYT Connections (extended)	12.9%	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	141.35	—

Math Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 37.8 (#147)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Math	1431	1371

Knowledge Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 38.2 (#148)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Expert	1432	1355
Vectara Hallucination Rate	—	9.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Vision	1223	—

Multilingual Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 45.8 (#162)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Non-English	1404	1320
LMArena Chinese	1442	1382
LMArena French	1448	1396
LMArena German	1451	1348
LMArena Korean	1385	1269
LMArena Russian	1395	1303
LMArena Spanish	1409	1376
LMArena Japanese	—	1268

Instruction Following Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 68.8 (#180)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Instruction Following	1415	1304

Long Context Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 39.5 (#175)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Longer Query	1415	1300

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: 52.3 (#174)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
LMArena Text	1421	1348
LMArena Creative Writing	1374	1269
LMArena Multi-Turn	1423	1319
EQ-Bench 4	993	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 better than Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B?

Mistral Medium 3.5 and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.2 vs 40.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B better for coding?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.5 versus 36.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 262K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium 3.5 and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B has 18.